The movie is also filled with scenes of disturbing and graphic torture and has many people upset. But not about the images and what they depict  what the images suggest.

The film has garnered five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. But its also beset with controversy and criticism.

CBS2 and KCAL9 Political Reporter Dave Bryan went to a theater in Hollywood Friday evening and spoke to a group of people who say the movie glorifies torture.

While the film has been playing in Los Angeles since mid-December, it opened nationwide Friday.

A small group  protesting with hoods over their heads  stood outside the theater with signs denouncing torture, drones and indefinite detention.

Another group, the interfaith United For Justice and Peace, say that two Hollywood stars  namely Martin Sheen and Ed Asner  have issued an appeal to other actors to vote their conscience on whether to reward the movie with a win on Oscar night.

Bryan also reports three prominent Senators  Dianne Feinstein, John McCain and Carl Levin  have also written a letter of protest to the films studio.

Critics of the movie say the torture scenes suggest the United States would never have captured or killed bin Laden without torturing detainees.

Protester Luis Rivas said, It directly and implicitly says that torture works and that the United States has successfully carried out its agenda using torture.

Bryan reports that some current and former CIA personnel have stated that enhanced interrogation techniques did lead to vital information in the manhunt.

Phil Mudd, a former CIA deputy director, said The information I saw derived from the detainees we had in CIA facilities  and that includes detainees where they used enhanced techniques  was invaluable. I would call it crucial.

Jessica Chastain, Oscar-nominated star of the movie, even admits she grappled with torture taking center stage in the film. I had trouble sleeping to be honest, she said. I had a lot of anxiety about whether we were telling the right story there are some very difficult scenes in this movie. We show very intense interrogations.

Director Kathryn Bigelow told CBS This Morning, I thought it was important we told a true story. And its part of the history. Its controversial but its part of the history.

Bryan said the Hollywood protest was not well-received by everyone who walked by. Said one man, The movie was brilliant. I suggest everyone go see it. I mean, the movie doesnt celebrate torture. It obviously doesnt. The movie is about something more deep than that.

Said protester Rivas, No one wants to see this movie banned. Thats the last thing we want. People should see this movie. In my opinion. But torture should be put in context and this movie glorifies it.

Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, wrote in a statement, Zero Dark Thirty does not advocate torture. To not include that part of history would have been irresponsible and inaccurate. We fully support Kathryn Bigelow and [writer] Mark Boal and stand behind this extraordinary movie. We are outraged that any responsible member of the Academy would use their voting status in AMPAS as a platform to advance their own political agenda. This film should be judged free of partisanship. To punish an artists right of expression is abhorrent.

But, that “torture” allowed us to gain the intelligence necessary so Obama could get all tacticaled-up and fly to Poky-ston to personally kill Osama Bin Laden! Or at least that’s the fantasy that the left masturbates to every night.

The libtards are just upset that this movie doesn’t portray Obama to be the one that killed Bin Laden with his little hands..libs hate torture, trust me, seeing these liberal loons patting each other on the back is TRUE torture

I think a documentary film of Sen Leahy revealing a Secret Satellite tracking system would be "interesting". Within six weeks of 911 Senator Leahy went on TV and announced that we were using a Secret Navy Satellite System to track bin Laden's cell phone.

I would be gald to see the ending brought to life when he is given a 21 gun salute, (firing squad) for all the military deaths that could be attached to this blabber mouth's disclosure!

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posted on 01/14/2013 1:50:18 PM PST
by Young Werther
(Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)

The liberals should be thankful they didn't show in the movie where Valerie Jarrett and Obama canceled the operation four times before Panetta took the bull by the horns and did it. They intimated it by having Maya show how many days after they discerned where Osama was living. “No Easy Day” and “Zero Dark Thirty” are both excellent portrayals of the event.

If somebody is against torture because of moral principles, shouldn’t they still be against it even if the torture works?

I’m against extreme torture (such as body mutilation) even if it does work. I suspect most freepers have a line somewhere that they draw using moral principles.

I would only be okay with something that causes extreme pain (such as shocks) in the most dire of circumstances, such as someone knew the location of a nuclear bomb that’s about to explode. Other than that, that’s out too.

Waterboarding was used three times by the Bush administration on the worst of the worst. I can live with that. I wouldn’t want to use it often, however.

Anything that’s no worse than what recruits face in boot camp (sleep deprivation, getting yelled at in the face, etc.) is just fine by me for nonuniformed enemy combatants.

I draw these lines based primarily on morality, not effectiveness. Some people want the universe to line up perfectly so that anything they find morally unacceptable is therefore also ineffective. It’s an absurd childlike way of thinking.

I enjoyed it. So did my new Marine son. OK, there were a couple of scenes that weren’t realistic—a junior CIA employee telling off her senior and threatening him with being exposed to a Congressional committee was a little absurd. I also heard that some of the other characters were not portrayed as positively as they should be. But overall, it was very good, edge-of-the-seat stuff even though you knew how it was going to turn out. Some good acting.

and surely there was no politics among the other voting movie directors that the director of Zero Dark was NOT nominated for best director, while the movie itself was nominated for best picture (ha ha) - a difference that is rare even in uber political Hollyweird

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